Re: [HACKERS] docs for random function

2009-08-16 Thread Sam Mason
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:57:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Sam Mason writes: > > The docs for the function random() currently say: > > random value between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive > > Yeah, it looks like Bruce changed this back in 8.2 and failed to fix > the documentation to match. I used this

Re: [HACKERS] docs for random function

2009-08-16 Thread Tom Lane
Sam Mason writes: > The docs for the function random() currently say: > random value between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive > this isn't a particularly useful invariant, what the code actually does > (and is commented as doing) is much more useful. Any chance of changing > it to something like: Yeah,

[HACKERS] docs for random function

2009-08-16 Thread Sam Mason
Hi, The docs for the function random() currently say: random value between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive this isn't a particularly useful invariant, what the code actually does (and is commented as doing) is much more useful. Any chance of changing it to something like: --- doc/src/sgml/func.sgml~